11/10/2018 - Romania’s largest documentary film event boasts five official competitions

The anniversary edition of the Astra Film Festival will kick off on 15 October in the Romanian city of Sibiu, with the freshest and best documentaries the world has to offer in its selection. A total of 128 titles selected from among 3,000 submissions will be screened over seven days across nine venues. Among these films, 11 are world premieres and 40 are national premieres, according to the press release. Fifty-six short films and features will be competing in the festival’s five official competitions.

The titles announced for the International Competitions are I Am Another You by Nanfu Wang (USA), The Image You Missed [+see also:
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film profile] by Donal Foreman (Ireland/France/USA), Minding the Gap by Bing Liu (USA), Sand and Blood [+see also:
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film profile] by Matthias Krepp and Angelika Spangel (Austria), Solving My Mother [+see also:
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film profile] by Ieva Ozolina (Latvia), Tanzania Transit [+see also:
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film profile] by Jeroen van Velzen (Netherlands), Thinking Like a Mountain by Alexander Hick (Germany/Colombia), Unsettling by Iris Zaki (Israel/UK) and Yvonne by Tommaso Perfetti (Italy/France).

Meanwhile, the Central and Eastern European Competition comprises The Distant Barking of Dogs [+see also:
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film profile] by Dorottya Zurbó (Hungary), Frozen Conflict by Steffi Wurster (Germany), Hugo [+see also:
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film profile] by Wojciech Klimala and Mateusz Wajda (Poland), Love Is Potatoes [+see also:
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film profile] by Aliona van der Horst (Netherlands), Putin’s Witnesses [+see also:
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interview: Vitaly Mansky
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interview: Nebojša Slijepčević
film profile] by Nebojsa Slijepcevic (Croatia), Taurunum Boy [+see also:
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film profile] by Jelena Maksimovic and Dusan Grubin (Serbia), When the War Comes [+see also:
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film profile] by Jan Gebert (Croatia/Czech Republic), and The White World According to Daliborek [+see also:
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interview: Vít Klusák
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Finally, the Romanian Competition includes Anniversary [+see also:
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film profile] by Andrei Gorgan and Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Licu, a Romanian Story [+see also:
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The festival also boasts two short-film competitions – one of them, Docschool, is dedicated exclusively to student films.